Absolute power : how the pope became the most influential man in the world / Paul Collins.
The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781610398602
- ISBN: 1610398602
- Physical Description: xv, 366 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-348) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Extinction? -- A death in Valence -- The "new consciousness" and "neo-ultramontanism" -- From "supreme power" to supreme pontiff -- Tackling a whole new world -- "God and the revolver!" -- "Obbedire, Obey" -- Pontificating on everything -- Rolling out and rolling back Vatican II -- Good Pope John -- "Throwing open the windows" -- The Polish colossus -- "The smell of the sheep" -- "Reform of the reform" -- The "field hospital" -- Death and resurrection.
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- Subject:
- Papacy > History.
Popes > Temporal power.
Roman question.
Vatican City > History.
Papal States > History > 1815-1870.
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